The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2020 By Noah Springer • September 1st, 2020 “We’re still in quarantine, and I’m still listening to beats and rhymes.”
Exploits Feature Hades By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 1st, 2020 “Even though the gods have the power to grant him infinite strength, they choose to wield Zagreus as yet another pawn…”
The Green Knight By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 31st, 2020 This week we check out the RPG based on the forthcoming A24 film The Green Knight.
Feature Excerpt Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020 A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.
Feature Excerpt The Relatable Dystopia By Mark Hill • August 28th, 2020 Mirror’s Edge is one of the few franchises to acknowledge that every dystopia is someone’s utopia.
Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Finding Emotional Absurdity in Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance By Alyssa Wejebe • August 26th, 2020 “It started…we just took the image of a raptor – a velociraptor – and put him in a letterman jacket.”
Your Future is Metal: The Industrial Nightmares of Shinya Tsukamoto By Orrin Grey • August 25th, 2020 It’s all happening at ten thousand miles per hour.
Rifts By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 24th, 2020 Don your Glitteboy armor and dive into the Megaverse!
Sound Cycles – The Re-Re-Invention Of JRPG Soundtracks By Michael Weber • August 24th, 2020 “We have to make even further developments from here on, but I would like to strive for the mix of “haphazardness” and “inevitability.”
